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The Peasants: Autumn (1904)

Author: Wladyslaw Reymont
Keywords: Nobel Prize; polish literature; Władysław Reymont; Wladyslaw Reymont
Year: 1904
Collection: opensource

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English translation of the Nobel-winning Polish novel Chłopi (Peasants), published in four volumes between 1904 and 1909. "Autumn" is the first volume, followed by "Winter", "Spring" and "Summer". Reymont was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1924 for Chłopi, over rivals Thomas Mann, Maxim Gorky and Thomas Hardy. Reymont was trying to outdo Emile Zola's Earth, which he found unconvincing. It is his masterpiece, a "mythopoeic triumph" according to Martin Seymour-Smith, a veritable guide to the Polish village of the period. Reymont invented a language to express peasant speech. The English translation badly needs to be redone, the work has been neglected by critics, publishers, translators and readers.

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